Pink and purple hands are not the issue
Also in today – Devon Rape Crisis and Sexual Abuse Services tweets:
Are you a self-identified woman? Are able to commit 3 evenings a month to volunteering? Are you passionate about gender equality & ending violence? If you’ve answered yes to all of the above we want to hear from you. Full details; http://devonrapecrisis.org.uk/support-us/get-involved
Which, as many women angrily responded, is just a terrible thing to do. Women who need rape or sexual abuse services don’t want them from men. They don’t want them from men even if those men “self-identify as” women. Rape and sexual abuse services should not be a place for men to exercise their fantasies. Rape and sexual abuse services should be for women and focus on what women need, not what narcissistic fantasizing men need.
And we *especially* don’t want rape and sexual abuse services from men who really really want to listen to women talk about being sexually assaulted. It’s not like it’s a secret that so many men find violation of women’s boundaries arousing.
Any bets on how quickly the victim-shaming starts after the first woman refuses to be ‘helped’ by an ostensibly male volunteer?
Any bets on how quickly the lawsuit and loss of government funding will result from such an incident, a la Vancouver?